(34) An Unexpected Goodbye
Dear Margaret, This was to be the third of the August snippets, in which I would explain my piano piece for you. Life, however, or death,...
I love you Tim, but not as much as I love my girlfriend, my soon to be ex-husband and our daughter.
Dear Margaret, This was to be the third of the August snippets, in which I would explain my piano piece for you. Life, however, or death,...
Dear Tim, I don't imagine for one moment that you do know where Alex Mair is. (Or care, let's be honest.) I don't know how well you've...
You have no idea how much I am looking forward to this. The other 3058 fans in the Edinburgh Playhouse will be very happy to be there....
I wish that I could crochet. This beautiful girl is wearing and holding something crocheted by her dad. Isn't that somehow perfect? I...
Country roads, take me home, I hummed to John Denver. Home is where the heart is, Pliny retorted. I am homeward bound, Paul Simon wished....
My beautiful girl, You are a teenager now. It will seem a long time, forever, in fact, but it will come faster than you realise. You...
We have reached a place in the scheme of things where it is comfortable to all spend time together, Katrina, Ian, Isabelle and I. We can...
I am glad that I visited Margaret on Boxing Day - it had been a while, and I had been putting it off. She died earlier this week. It is...
We arrived at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness at 3 in the morning, on the 22nd of December (2004), two hours after my waters announced it...
My lovely friend Elaine recently sent me a letter I had written to her from The Train, on the 30th January 1992. We were 20 and I had not...
We went, last month, to a truly great 60th birthday party. We went, last month, to a truly great 60th birthday party. Great, because the...
Katrina said she thought it must be harder for someone with a bisexual partner, than someone with a heterosexual partner or a homosexual...
Better get back to Tim before I get carried away too soon with the angry people. I amended the cartoon that was Chris Madden's cartoon...
You deserve a medal, Isabelle. You would say you have already won it, but then you would also feel bad about thinking that. It has not...
I was rummaging around this bag of words for songs, staves, keys, accidentals (YOU were not that; you were so absolutely wanted, planned...
I still love Ian. This may sound implausible, but until the day I knew I was going to leave him, I did not know I was. Question: Is it...